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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - WSJ.comWASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed ...
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U.S. charges Chicago man in '08 Mumbai attack - Yahoo! NewsU.S. prosecutors on Monday charged a Chicago man, David Headley, with helping plan the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six Americans. Headley, the first American charged in the plot, was accused of receiving training from the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, ...
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Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries - Boing BoingWhen it was revealed that the U.S. resorted to torture to extract information from prisoners, many people my age must have had a very somber thought for the thousands of young Americans who had given their lives on the beaches of Normandy in a brave effort to rid the world of governments that ...
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Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisThe United States is in "a defensive crouch" on climate change that threatens its national security and must go on the offense by signing an agreement to combat global warming at an international conference in Copenhagen next month, reporters were told here. "Climate change would act as a ...
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Admiral Warns Cybersecurity Threat Looms For U.S. - Wolfe's Den Blog - InformationWeek"Do you believe our adversaries have the capability of bringing down a power grid?" Kroft asked McConnell. "I do," McConnell replied. To give some ummph to his warning, McConnell leaked the previously undisclosed news that a series of power-grid outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were ...
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Epoch Times - New Zealand's Role in the Afghanistan WarPublic opinion polls show that half of all New Zealanders are opposed to the Special Armed Services (SAS) being deployed in Afghanistan. The war is actually serving to strengthen the Taliban, Keith Locke told parliament earlier this month.
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Amanda Bowman: U.S. and U.K. Decisions Hurt Global and National Security - WSJ.comIn the late 80s, Margaret Thatcher warned George H.W. Bush "not to go wobbly" on her; in the past week both the Scottish Justice Secretary and the government of the United States have "gone wobbly" in the fight against terrorism. Let's review what happened on December 21, 1988. Pan Am flight ...
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If Gordon Brown really wants to fight terrorism, he should have blocked the release of the Lockerbie bomber - Telegraph BlogsGordon Brown can’t have it both ways. On the one hand he claims that his determination to fight terrorism remains “absolute”. On the other he says he had “no role” in the decision to release Abdelbaset Ali Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of carrying out the Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. ...
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Jendayi E. Frazer: How the Obama Administration Can Help Sub-Saharan Africa and Advance U.S. Strategic Interests - WSJ.comecretary of State Hillary Clinton recently concluded her maiden trip to sub-Saharan Africa carrying in her words "a tough message lovingly delivered." Simultaneously, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk visited Kenya, Ethiopia and Senegal also touting, in his words, "a tough love" message for Africans....
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tehran times : Release of convicted Libyan should put dark past behind everyoneIt is understandable that many Americans are upset about the decision by the Scottish court to release Abdelbaset al-Megrahi from his 27 year prison sentence after only a few years served. The accused, al-Megrahi, was convicted in the bombing of PAN AM Flight 103 in 1988. The plane was flying ...
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